Pomp and circumstance

It’s been a while.

The past few weeks have been full of schoolwork, the usual training for football, and preparing for graduation. This preparation included, among other things, writing the commencement speech, which I gave on Saturday to 10,000 screaming fans. Ok they were students and parents sitting quietly, but I’m sure they wanted to scream. I was pretty nervous sitting on stage before the speech, but once I got to the podium I was on autopilot. I barely remember being up there actually haha. But people seemed to enjoy it, so I’m glad I was able to end my career at UMD on a high note.

Newly-graduated engineers. nbd

And now… I’m a college graduate. I don’t feel any different, but that could be for a number of reasons: could be that I know I’ll be going to grad school at some point, or that I’m not starting a real job, or that I haven’t moved away yet, or maybe it just hasn’t set in. Whatever the case, summer is here and I plan to make the most of it. My goals/plans for the summer:

Get in the best shape of my life

Spend as much time as possible at the beach

Spend as little money as possible

Savor every moment of my last weeks in Duluth

After Day 1, I’m off to a great start. I had a good hard workout, ate leftovers, and used a gift card to buy a beach volleyball that I plan to get lots of use out of. Long live summer.